[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations
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May 12, 2026
The kernel's dma-buf
subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management tracks to explore ways to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient yet, and to make them available for read and write operations initiated by user space.
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